Since Hurricane Helene made landfall on Thursday, Biden and Kamala have been conspicuously absent. They should’ve been on TV every day, providing comfort, pledging support, and promising to visit flood-ravaged states ASAP. In infuriating contrast, Trump was all over TV, and it hardly mattered that he was blatantly lying about what they were doing and making hollow promises about what he would do. Indeed, Puerto Ricans will attest that Trump seemed to think throwing paper towels into hungry, flood-ravaged crowds was all the relief they needed to recover from Hurricane Florence.
Biden and Kamala finally appeared on TV today to address the fallout from the hurricane. Except Biden did so from the White House and Kamala from FEMA HQ in Washington, D.C. But even then, Trump upstaged them — because this devil went down to flood-ravaged Georgia, looking for votes to steal.
Trump’s Secret Service detail is just as disruptive now as Biden and Kamala’s. Yet there he was in flood-ravaged Georgia, looking like the friggin’ sitting president delivering relief while blasting Biden and Kamala for being AWOL. Everyone knew Trump was planning this campaign stunt and would lie through his teeth to make it work. This is why Biden should’ve ordered the Secret Service to keep every protectee away from all affected areas until he gave the okay, ensuring he and Kamala would be the first to visit. You know that’s what Trump would’ve done if the Democratic nominee tried to pull this stunt while he was president.
Biden and Kamala are kidding themselves if they don’t think this will affect how people vote. Helene wreaked unspeakable damage from Florida to North Carolina, and Trump used it to inflict collateral damage on Kamala’s presidential campaign.
